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Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds

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173 points textadventure | 3 comments | 22 Nov 24 06:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jatins ◴[22 Nov 24 10:25 UTC] No.42212622[source]▶
wait FedEx just delivers 400k worth of stuff without any KYC or OTP verification??
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Spooky23 ◴[22 Nov 24 11:16 UTC] No.42212872[source]▶
UPS pays their drivers very well. FedEx… does not.

I’ve had them “deliver” a bunch of PCs to a dumpster. Or drop off a laptop to a garbage can in a Manhattan office. How do I know? The courier took a picture to document the delivery.

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1. johnnyanmac ◴[22 Nov 24 12:02 UTC] No.42213122[source]▶
I supposed this begs the obvious question I'll ask: why? It seems like this is an easy way to make sure any and all Fedex employess are looking to jump ship to UPS or any other competitor.
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2. joezydeco ◴[22 Nov 24 13:53 UTC] No.42213834[source]▶
UPS drivers are unionized. FedEx drivers at the local stage are a network of third party companies that contract to FedEx and put their logo on their trucks. Look at the grey fine print by the driver door.
3. Spooky23 ◴[22 Nov 24 14:00 UTC] No.42213883[source]▶
UPS drivers are teamsters and are pretty committed to the company. You need to work your ass off in distribution centers and other places before you get in a truck.

When FedEx was falling behind by not having ground service, they bought another network (RPS iirc) and built out a network of contracted providers. In my area, it was the companies that did newspaper delivery. Some of them are ok, most of them suck. I think the residential delivery is all contracted, but business services are FedEx badged people in some scenarios.